Marriott made an announcement in May about the breakfast changes at their North American JW Marriott, Marriott, Renaissance, and Autograph Collection hotels starting on June 22, 2013. Gold and Platinum members are now eligible for continental breakfast 7 days week at non-resort locations. You can read my previous articles about this change here, here, and here.

There were some properties that were excluded from this benefits and Marriott provided me a list about them:

Three properties that were on the original list, now do offer this benefit:

– Atlanta Marriott Marquis

– Los Angeles Airport Marriott

– Renaissance Chicago Downtown

And then there is one new property that has been added to this excluded list:

Marriott is making this too confusing with properties dropping off and being added to this list. If they are going to offer this benefit to their Gold and Platinum members, it should be offered at all of these brands (preferably in Courtyards as well and resort locations that are still excluded).

Conclusion

Let’s hope that this exclusion list gets shorter rather than longer, as is happening with this latest development. Marriott should have been able to encourage these properties to offer this benefit instead of points to their Gold and Platinum members. Consistency is the key!